Help in creating a MacOSX binary of the mapdata package 2.1-3?

Hello all,

I recently noticed that the MacOSX binary of the mapdata package ver  
2.1-3
wasn't available.
There is an earlier version 2.1-1.
The mapdata package is a useful extension for the maps package,  
providing
higher-resolution map data.

In contacting package maintainer Ray Brownrigg, (Ray.Brownrigg at
ecs.vuw.ac.nz), I'm told that he is willing to make the fixes  
necessary,
however does not have the Mac resources to track the bug causing the
problems.

In looking at the log, I get the impression that the actual problem is
minor, in that a problem occurs in checking the examples.

Here's a copy-and-paste from the logs below.

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checking examples ... ERROR
Running examples in 'mapdata-Ex.R' failed.
The error most likely occurred in:
When I compile from source on a Mac 10.5.8  running R 2.11.1 the  
version 2.1-3 of mapdata does not report an error.

 > require(mapdata)
 > map("china") # draws a map
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 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 Patched (2010-02-17 r51152)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] mapdata_2.1-3  maps_2.1-4     reshape_0.8.3  plyr_0.1.9      
lattice_0.18-3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.10.1  tools_2.10.1

### * china

flush(stderr()); flush(stdout())

### Name: china
### Title: China Map
### Aliases: china chinaMapEnv
### Keywords: datasets

### ** Examples

map('china')
*** caught segfault ***
address 0x30010073, cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
1: .C("maptype", PACKAGE = "maps", as.character(mapbase), integer(1))
2: maptype(database)
3: map("china")
aborting ...
==================================================================

Does anyone in the Mac group have the skills and time to figure this  
out and
contact Ray about a solution?

Sorry, I should really try to do this myself, but I'm still very new  
at
this...

Thanks,

Jooil

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